Ian Lavery, the Labour chairman, cranked up the rhetoric by saying that a statue to honour our first woman PM would be "an insult to those whose communities and livelihoods were destroyed under her premiership".

He told the Mirror: "Working class people in this country would not stand for a Tory shrine in the heart of our capital city, that would rightly be seen as glorifying the destruction of her administration."

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The Sun has been told that Lady Thatcher’s daughter Carol and son Sir Mark are also refusing to give it their blessing because they share fears over the vandalism threat.

A Royal Parks spokesman said: “Numerous times we have requested assurances from the applicant that they have approval from the family for the statue.

“To date we have not had those assurances.”

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The PM as she arrived in Hamburg for talks

Mrs May also said ahead of talks with President Trump later today that she hopes the US will find a way to "come back into the Paris Agreement".

She said: “I was clear to President Trump how disappointed the UK was that the United States had decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement and also clear that I hope they will be able to find a way to come back into the Paris Agreement.

“I believe it is possible. We are not renegotiating the Paris Agreement. That stays.”